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Ada, not ADA. It’s named after Ada Lovelace, not an abbreviation.
by svvcfb1212 6y ago
Ada, not ADA. It’s named after Ada Lovelace, not an abbreviation.
- carlmr 6y agoI thought it was both. But I never bothered to ask what it abbreviates.
- KingOfCoders 6y agoYou are right, but it could be both.
- Lucretia9 6y agoNo, it really cannot. It's a person's name.
- carlmr 6y agoAmericans really love acronyms that spell out a word. BASIC is a word, and it means Beginner's All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code. I don't know why you think it's impossible to have an acronym spell a name?
- mitjak 6y agolol because it's not an acronym in this case, as stated
- carlmr 6y agoThe previous poster said it could be both, not that it is both. Apparently a lot of people think it is, which is because it's such a commonplace phenomenon. That it is a person's name is orthogonal to whether it could be an acronym.
- KingOfCoders 6y agoThank you for making my point clearer than I did ! :-)
- carlmr 6y ago:)
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- Lucretia9 6y agoBASIC / Basic isn't a person's name.
- carlmr 6y agoThen name your kid Basic and you see that any word can be a name, which makes this a meaningless distinction.
- goatinaboat 6y agoThe core of Oracles PL/SQL is called DIANA, distributed intermediate annotated notation (for) Ada.
- sbuttgereit 6y agoAnd while I'm not too sure of the development history behind PostgreSQL's PL/pgSQL (I suspect Oracle's PL/SQL had influence), the Ada influence necessarily shows there as well.